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Read in the Wunder reader — freeQ. At what time on Monday was it?
A. About the middle of the day.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Pell.
Q. What is Mr. Holloway?
A. A wine merchant.
Q. Where does he live?
A. In Martin's-lane, Cannon-street.
Q. Have you known him any time?
A. I have known him upwards of twenty years.
Q. How long have you acted for him as his broker?
A. Perhaps two years.
Mr. James Steers sworn.
Examined by Mr. Gurney.
Q. Are you Stock Broker to the Accountant General of the Court of Chancery?
A. I am.
Q. Did you as broker to the Accountant General, make purchases on Monday the 21st February?
A. I did.
Q. At what prices?
A. I made purchases to the amount of L15,957:10:8, at 71-5/8 per cent.
Q. Consols I suppose?
A. Yes, I have got them down in various sums.
Q. Was that the high price of the day, or the price at which stock opened in the morning?
A. I got to my office I think about eleven o'clock, or a little before, I took the orders from the Accountant General's office.
Q. At what time did you begin making your purchases?
A. I think from eleven to a quarter after eleven.
Q. Had the news then considerably raised the Stocks?
A. It had.
Lord Ellenborough. Is that all you did that day?
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